Talk #1 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
Anton Iliashenko, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Betti numbers of nearly G_2 and nearly Kähler manifolds with Weyl curvature bounds"
Matthew Satriano, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Organizational meeting
We will give a brief overview of chiral de Rham cohomology and discuss the plan for the term.
MC 5403
Sergii Myroshnychenko, Lakehead University
"How far apart can centroids be?"
Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Relation between self-duality and conformal structures in dimension 4"
Tomasz Tkocz, Carnegie Melon University
"Slicing l_p balls"
I shall present recent progress on sharp bounds on volume of hyperplane sections of unit balls in l_p spaces, as well as their stability.
This seminar will be held both online and in person:
Steve Rayan, University of Saskatchewan
"Resolutions of finite quotient singularities and quiver varieties"
Andrej Vukovic, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Perfectoid Spaces, Diamonds, and Applications"
I explain Peter Scholze's concepts of perfectoid spaces and diamonds, then describe some applications to the Langlands program.
This seminar will be held both online and in person:
Amanda Petcu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Some Calculations Regarding $G_2$ and the Isometric Flow I"
Nikon Kurnosov, University College London
"Holomorphic symplectic manifolds: IHS vs BG-manifolds"
Andriy Haydys, Free University of Brussels
"What does the Alexander polynomial know about flat PSL(2,C)-connections?"